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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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6. How then did we come to place freedom in the will when we made out free action to be that produced- or as we also indicated, suppressed- at the dictate of will? If what we have been saying is true and our former statement is consistent with it, the case must stand thus: Virtue and Intellectual-Principle are sovereign and must be held the sole foundation of our self-disposal and freedom; both then are free; Intellectual-Principle is self-confined: Virtue, in its government of the soul which…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 6

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